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I diffed down to understand why Open Office (1663 consistent with Microsoft Office) differs from Google Docs (1655). "ago--never": G docs 1 word vs OpenOffice

I diffed down to understand why Open Office (1663 consistent with Microsoft Office) differs from Google Docs (1655). "ago--never": G docs 1 word vs OpenOffice 2 words. "tiger-lillies--what": G docs 1 word vs OpenOffice 2 words (IDK what this should "really" be) "Wanting?--Water": GD 3 words vs OO 2 words In this case the disagreement springs, exclusively, from if the docs engine believes that double hyphens make a compound word (and potentially handling punctuation in the middle of such a compound word)

jkingsbery 5y ago
This is an excellent answer. The original post, insinuating that engineers are demonstrating "engineering mediocrity" or not "correct," is lazy for not understanding why this problem is ill-defined.
- horsawlarway 5y ago
  Absolutely. The irony is that his title is correct - Boring problems need attention. But the content is jarringly wrong - The lack of attention didn't lie with the engineers of these companies, but with the author themselves. For ~1600 words, they could have very easily tried to count it and quickly realized that the answers they got weren't wrong - the question was lazy and lacking attention. Do you mean dictionary words? Compound words? Whitespace separated tokens? What about stand alone text that isn't a word (ex - page numbers? Title numbers?) Words that the author invented? Words use non-traditional-spacing or grammar?(and maybe a missing space) ---- But nope, it's those damn lazy engineers!
randompwd 5y ago
> "tiger-lillies--what": G docs 1 word vs OpenOffice 2 words (IDK what this should "really" be) i think 3 words. The tiger lily is a type of lily. plural is tiger lillies. Fair to say hypen is stylistic (& after a quick web search , I can't find any other usage like that). That aside, I can't believe how simplistic Google Docs word recognition/count engine is.

jkingsbery 5y ago

This is an excellent answer. The original post, insinuating that engineers are demonstrating "engineering mediocrity" or not "correct," is lazy for not understanding why this problem is ill-defined.

horsawlarway 5y ago
Absolutely. The irony is that his title is correct - Boring problems need attention. But the content is jarringly wrong - The lack of attention didn't lie with the engineers of these companies, but with the author themselves. For ~1600 words, they could have very easily tried to count it and quickly realized that the answers they got weren't wrong - the question was lazy and lacking attention. Do you mean dictionary words? Compound words? Whitespace separated tokens? What about stand alone text that isn't a word (ex - page numbers? Title numbers?) Words that the author invented? Words use non-traditional-spacing or grammar?(and maybe a missing space) ---- But nope, it's those damn lazy engineers!

randompwd 5y ago

> "tiger-lillies--what": G docs 1 word vs OpenOffice 2 words (IDK what this should "really" be) i think 3 words. The tiger lily is a type of lily. plural is tiger lillies. Fair to say hypen is stylistic (& after a quick web search , I can't find any other usage like that). That aside, I can't believe how simplistic Google Docs word recognition/count engine is.